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- From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
- Subject: Re: The world according to propeller-boy - part 1
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.163104.4817@rotag.mi.org>
- Organization: Who, me???
- References: <1992Jul29.152619.5660@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:31:04 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <1992Jul29.152619.5660@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com writes:
- >In <1992Jul29.012524.3335@cfctech.cfc.com> kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy) writes:
- >> In article <Bs2BLt.pE@cs.dal.ca> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve "edified" Franklin
- >> >To be fair I think that the original poster's quote was easy
- >> >to misinterpret.
- >
- >In fact, I think the prison reference makes it fairly obvious that Kevin
- >*did* misinterpret it.
- >
- >> Thanks for the effort, Steve, but once a witch-hunt is in full swing, it's
- >> often very difficult to demonstrate to the mob that the victim isn't actually
- >> a witch (shades of Monty Python and the Holy Grail :-). I have a feeling this
- >> one is no exception.
- >
- >Except it's not a witch-hunt, it's an asshole-hunt.
-
- Ah, I see. Anything is excusable when the victim is unpopular, huh?
-
- Great reasoning. Great principles. Great integrity.
-
- >And it's easy to
- >disprove the accusation - simply admit that you misinterpreted it, and
- >apologize.
-
- I have offered to add my apology to that of everyone else who has contributed
- to this mess. I decline to be anyone's scapegoat.
-
- (If you can't bring yourself to apologize to Susan, then at
- >least to her SO.)
-
- My article was addressed to Susie. Why should I apologize to anyone else
- but its recipient? If she chose to inflict the article on her S.O. that
- was hardly MY choice, now was it?
-
- >Continuing to attack merely proves the accuracy of the
- >accusations.
-
- What a crock! Continuing to counter-attack merely proves that I don't lick
- massa's boots, no way, no how...
-
- - Kevin
-